What's Normal?

What's Normal?

Normal: Of and or pertaining to the norms.

Norms: Prevalent characteristics of a demographic subset.

This subject came up the other day after Trygg found my old dictionary. He dragged it out and began flipping through the pages.

"This is so cool," he said. "You can look words up in this thing just like a real dictionary."

"It is a real dictionary."

"No, but, I mean, there aren't any links, no hotspots, I can't copy paste anything into an email. How dull is this?"

I went back to reading and ignored him. He continued flipping though the book.

This is how it really started.

See, I have no problem with Trygg doing things around the house that I consider normal. Like flossing. However, Trygg and I do have a few grey areas. For example, the other day he was going to see his girlfriend, Kelly. I got out his dental floss.

"Your breath smells like tuna fish."

"Thank you. What's the floss for?"

"To floss before you go out."

"Can I use yours?"

"May I use yours."

"You don't like mine, it's minty."

(I don't pursue this.)

"Why do you want to use my dental floss?"

"I don't want the minty stuff to kill the smell of the tuna fish."

I hand Trygg my floss. For a moment, I forgot he is a cat. And therein lies the problem. I mean, putting his dishes in the sink, making his bed, fine. Then he goes and does something totally off the wall and I have trouble understanding him. For example:

Last night, and again this morning, he kept walking around and through my legs, rubbing up against me, going over to his food dish, taking a bite or two, coming back, rubbing my leg, walking back to his food dish, eating a few bites, and so on. This, I don't understand. I just don't see this as normal behaviour. Why does he do this? He woke me up twice last night to watch him eat. Then, again, this morning.

Is Trygg insecure all of a sudden? He seems normal. He still uses his napkin. He licks up any spills around his water dish. He remembers to lick his paws before coming into the house. Why, all of a sudden, is he putting on a real performance at meal time? Or whatever he considers meal time. There, however, I have no grounds for dispute. I eat at off times as well.

I can even understand and allow for his getting excited over Arsenals loss and toilet-papering the bathroom and soaping up the mirror. I mean, let's be real here. Cat's do play with toilet paper.

If all goes along as normal, we will man up and move on. It will pass. Still, I don't understand it. Perhaps someone could explain it. Trygg is too reticent on these issues and it would be rude for me to ask.

Even the cat winks =^.~=

Regards,

Slim

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